While people are at it, there was a paper that used to be distributed with the video "Outside-In" explaining the math in it (I think that it was coauthored by Thurston and Silvio Levi). Does anyone have a copy of it?
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Andy PutmanSep 22 '10 at 3:06

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@Andy Putname: Outside In is available from A.K. Peters, as a DVD, together with Not Knot and the video supplement Making Waves by Silvio Levy. (You can also still order videotape versions). Here is the link: akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=4537 The videotape should be available at many libraries, and probably the supplement.
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Bill ThurstonSep 22 '10 at 3:27

Both "Outside In" and "Not Knot" are also available online at various places. For some reason I had convinced myself a while ago that it was no longer for sale [and none of the institutions I've been at have owned copies] -- thanks for pointing out the link!
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Andy PutmanSep 22 '10 at 3:41

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@Andy Putnam, I just mininterpreted your meaning. I don't have any problem (personally) with giving people links to the streaming versions --- I've done it myself. The video quality is of course much better on the DVD; the two forms have different roles. When we made the videos, our purpose was never commercial, but to show people aspects of mathematics they may not have encountered, and to enable them to catch on, enjoy and become interested in things that might have made no sense. My personal stake is that I want interested people to be able to see them.
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Bill ThurstonSep 22 '10 at 11:22

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@jc: "On the combinatorics and dynamics of iterated rational maps" has has now been edited and updated by Dierk Schleicher, and is published in the volume Complex Dynamics: Families and Friends which he edited (associated with thte John Hubbard 60th birthday conference).
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Bill ThurstonSep 22 '10 at 19:09

Joseph O'Rourke did what I should have thought to do myself: he wrote to David Dobkin, who still had a copy of a version of these notes in his email. I haven't yet gone over them to make them compile with a current tex environment, but here is a copy as-is. When I have a chance to fix it, I'll substitute a better version and I'll consider whether to put it in a more visible spot.